Seeking Strategic Consulting Gigs

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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Subject: Courtney, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: Courtney Bolton

Please help find some gigs. Thanks.

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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Subject: Timo, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: Timo Ewalds

Please help out if you can. Thanks.

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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Subject: Shane, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: Shane Snow

Hi Shane. Can you please help me land a gig? Thanks.

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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Hi Eric, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: eric@foursquare.com

Hi Eric.

I seek a short term strategic consulting gig with FourSquare. Can you
please help out?

Thanks.

Paramendra.

(I hope I got your email address right. I guessed it.)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:16 PM
Subject: Hi Albert, requesting help
To: Albert Wenger

Hello Albert.

Can you please help me land a few strategic consulting gigs?

Thanks.

Paramendra.

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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Subject: Fred, need a small help
To: Fred Wilson

Hi Fred.

If I manage to get through your inbox impossibilities and you do end
up reading this email....... Can you please help me land a few
strategic consulting gigs with some of your portfolio companies? Would
be a big help.

Thanks.

Paramendra.

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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Subject: Seeking A Strategic Consulting Role
To: Dina Kaplan , Mike Hudack

Hi Dina. Hello Mike.

I was at your guys' Holiday party in 2010.
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2010/12/bliptv-how-do-they-ever-get-anything.html

I seek a strategic consulting role with Blip.TV along these lines:
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-politician-in-redmond.html More
about me here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paramendra I was Barack
Obama's first full time volunteer in NYC, and the campaign in Chicago
picked up specific advice from me three times, each documented at my
Barackface blog.

I am someone working to launch a tech startup in the microfinance
space down the line. But I do consulting gigs right now.

I hope my services will be worth it to you.

Thanks.

Paramendra.

--
http://gutkhaconsulting.com
http://www.paramendra.com
917 512 5445

Fred Wilson's Impossible Inbox

Wilson's Snipe perched on a fencepost near Wales, Central Utah. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

@fredwilson Sent you an email at 5:15 PM. Please find in your impossible inbox and read, time permitting. Thank you much.
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) July 26, 2012

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I have a private webpage that has links to sites and news sources I visit often. And so I have a list of places I go to for technology news and commentaries.

This is the conveyor belt concept.

You open up a news source. You open up an article or blog post. Even before you have read it, based just on the headline and summary you create your own headline and jot down a few comments. You start work on a new blog post. You insert the headline and hyperlink to it. You grab key sentences and phrases to quote in your own blog post. By the time you are done reading you should have more comments. Those comments are the meat of the blog post.

Then you use Zemanta to add related articles, the image. Google's Blogger helps with labels and products to advertise (although noone has bought anything at my blog yet .... I am blaming it on the ongoing recession).

You can produce one blog post every 10 or 15 minutes. You can do it all day long if you enjoy reading as much I do. This is a great way to work out your mind. I can just feel it. I can feel my mind muscles building up.

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Solar Makes Sense

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